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Posted by Tom on September 1, 2010, 4:19 pm



> The 765 manual refers to the "trip log" rather than a track log. It just
> tells you how to turn the feature on or off, but gives no further informa=
tion
> at all.
> I use a GPS76 Cx when I want to record a track log. The Nuvi 765 will do =
this
> as well but doesn't work very well as a hand-held.
Mike:
Does the 765 write a daily .gpx file of the trip log to the memory
card? My guess is the trip log is recorded like the 76 does in "auto"
mode. If that is the mode used, then the trip log would fill up
before the end of a trip of a week or two.

I want to get a receiver with greater readability in the car than my
60CSx, but it would be better if I did not have to keep both running
in order to have a complete track (or trip) log of the whole trip.


Posted by Mike Lane on September 1, 2010, 5:26 pm


Tom wrote on Sep 1, 2010:

>
>>
>> The 765 manual refers to the "trip log" rather than a track log. It just
>> tells you how to turn the feature on or off, but gives no further
>> information
>> at all.
>>
>> I use a GPS76 Cx when I want to record a track log. The Nuvi 765 will do
>> this
>> as well but doesn't work very well as a hand-held.
>>
> Mike:
> Does the 765 write a daily .gpx file of the trip log to the memory
> card?

I'm not really sure about this but I think it will only write the track log
to internal memory. There's no option to change it to anything else.

> My guess is the trip log is recorded like the 76 does in "auto"
> mode. If that is the mode used, then the trip log would fill up
> before the end of a trip of a week or two.

Again I'm not sure - but when I mount the Nuvi on my Mac via USB, the Mac
reports over 1GB of internal memory free, so I would think there's plenty of
room for track logs - they take very little memory after all.

Anyway, as I said I always keep my 76 running on the dashboard, and take it
with me when I leave the car. That way I keep a complete record of all my
movements for as long as I like.

--
Mike Lane
UK North Yorkshire
mike_lane at mac dot com


Posted by Wayne R. on September 1, 2010, 8:28 pm


wrote (with clarity & insight):

>Does the 765 write a daily .gpx file of the trip log to the memory
>card? My guess is the trip log is recorded like the 76 does in "auto"
>mode. If that is the mode used, then the trip log would fill up
>before the end of a trip of a week or two.

No daily gpx file. It's got a set register that runs FIFO for the
extent of its capacity.

>I want to get a receiver with greater readability in the car than my
>60CSx, but it would be better if I did not have to keep both running
>in order to have a complete track (or trip) log of the whole trip.

I agree, a continuous dump into a huge SD card would be terrific. But,
without that, I just pull the track into MapSource daily, reassemble
individual segments into daily pieces (or whatever makes sense).

It's not hard to do, but it's a task I could usually live without -
usually, the less I want to do it, the more important it get done.

An alternative: <http://homepages.tig.com.au/~robk/> But since nuvi's
don't output NMEA data, you'd need these coupled with a receiver
that's more traditional.

Posted by Terje Mathisen on August 30, 2010, 8:38 am


Rich wrote:
>> Terje Mathisen wrote:
>>> Rich wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Just wondering if anyone knows of a model that's good for highway
>>>> navigation, and is good for hiking too? Does any such model exist?
>>> Something like a Garmin 76CSx is very good for hiking, the latest models
>>> (Oregon/Colorado/etc) can also use bitmapped scans of topo maps.
>>> For road navigation the same models do work, but I've simply left an old
>>> & cheap Quest in my car.
>>> Terje
>> I agree with the above, I have a 76CSx and it's a great gps for hiking and
>> geocaching, but after owning Street Pilots and a Nuvi for the car I
>> wouldn't be happy with the 76 for navigation in the car. With the prices
>> what they are on the Nuvi models now you can buy a hand held and a Nuvi
>> for less then I gave for one of my Street Pilots.
> Thanks Terje and Don for the quick replys. I was wondering if I would be
> better off buying a dedicated model for each use. I'm wanting something with
> text 2 speech, and a screen big enough to see for my car, and one that will
> get me back to my car if I take it for a hike. Plus enough battery power to
> last a couple of days (Turning on every once in a while to get a bearing).

That's the key to the 76CSx and similar: They run for 20+ hours on a
pair of rechargable NiMH AA, but for longer/multi-day trips I simply
bring 2 or 4 spare (regular) batteries.

I keep the gps on at all times, I want that accurate track log afterwards!

Terje
--
- <Terje.Mathisen at tmsw.no>
"almost all programming can be viewed as an exercise in caching"

Posted by Anthony R. Gold on August 31, 2010, 5:58 am



> Just wondering if anyone knows of a model that's good for highway
> navigation, and is good for hiking too? Does any such model exist?

I've just started playing with navigation using a Nokia phone and the Ovi
mapping software seems to do both of those jobs fine.

Tony

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